Tag Archives: ruby

Quoth the raven, Nevermore.

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Daniel Roop

I felt this classic line from Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven was appropriate to start off my review of Raven “the build tool for Java programs based on Rake and Ruby Gems”. Now that my eyes have been opened to … Continue reading →

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Alternatives to Ant

Posted on July 22, 2007 by Daniel Roop

A very exciting thing happened recently at my office. I was given the go ahead to do a proof of concept build process using Ruby (Sica if you are reading this calm down and enjoy your new baby!). The task … Continue reading →

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Orlando User Groups

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Daniel Roop

I just wanted to point out that I added my user group affiliations to the navigation panel. Anyone in the Orlando area, that is interested in Ruby probably already knows about the ORUG. The ORUG is a fairly popular user … Continue reading →

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Syntax Sugar

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Daniel Roop

I have been doing a lot of reading lately about MDSD and DSLs and I have to admit the ideas they suggest are rather seductive. I don’t mean that in a negative way, I simple mean the end goal of … Continue reading →

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Banana Pudding…Yum!!!

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Daniel Roop

I just want to make a quick and dirty post congratulating a co-worker of mine on the launch of his first independent project. The project is Ataraxis Pudding and it is: “Pudding is a simple visual collaboration tool. You upload … Continue reading →

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Hi I’m RubyOnRails

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Daniel Roop

They guys over at Rails Envy have put together some pretty funny spots in the spirit of the I’m a Mac ads that apple has been publishing. I have met these guys at my local RUG, which Greg, the RubyOnRails … Continue reading →

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current_page?

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Daniel Roop

This weekend I found myself caught in a love/hate relationship with a certain method in rails. I love this method because it uses some sort of mind control to know exactly when to show a link and when to show … Continue reading →

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Resful Resources

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Daniel Roop

Over the last two weeks Tyler and I have been coding like mad men, after work to get closer to a feature complete TallyHoh beta. One of annoying things I came across when I was making the transition to Resful … Continue reading →

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